Apple Claims Largest Ever First-Day iPhone Pre-Orders of 600,000

[Master Chief]

Let's hope that this: "This changes everything. Again" on the Apple website will truly change something... at Apple's side, to start with more units for launch day and partners that are ready for the people willing to pre-order. What else is pre-ordering good for – except for a good PR stunt

If you know that it is going to change something... then please be ready for it Apple!

 

[BiomaxDDS]

Super impressive. It really makes sense why the servers got hammered. Well, I'm not a "Gotta Have It, Gotta Have It" kind of customer that just wants to be a show off to his co-workers and school mates like many people here. I can wait until the fanfare dies a bit. The iPhone WILL be there when I get there.

just because i "gotta have it" that means i want to show it off? LMAO

 

[RHatton]

I preordered mine in the AT&T store first thing at open yesterday morning. To everyone that had preordered already. Have you all been informed that you WILL be getting yours on launch day? I have been seeing various information bouncing around that preorders won't be available until July 14 and such. I am assuming that date is for those that are placing preorders now.

 

[stagi]

Amazing! Can't wait to pick mine up at the Valley Fair store next week

 

[suwandy]

wondering what's the number will be like on launch day for people signing up on the day...

 

[statisticschick]

7 iPhones per second (assuming a 24-hour period). That's crazy!

That's awesome! The bottom line is that it's a good, solid product. I converted from Blackberry to an iPhone a little over a year ago. Never been happier with a purchase (I have the 3GS). My decision to pre-order the iPhone 4 was based solely on my solid experience with my iPhone 3GS. It has been a lasting, durable product that worked from the minute I turned it on and has never stopped. It's my contact book, my ToDo list, my calendar, my gaming device, my sketch pad, my journal, my everything! Oh, yeah, it's also a great phone that I use a lot for work. To have a single device that can do all so beautifully is a technological wonder.

Apple doesn't always do something FIRST, but what they do is take what others are doing and make it better. That fact that my 99 year-old grandmother was able to look at a picture on my iPhone and figure out quickly how to "swipe" from picture to picture says something about the intuitiveness of the device and its OS.

I don't tend to be a person of excess and I'm rarely the kind of person who will stand in line for something new, but I will do it for an iPhone!

 

[Fireteller]

How about you do some fact checking first....

"
AT&T said orders of the iPhone 4 on Tuesday -- the first day of online preorders -- were 10 times higher than for the iPhone 3GS last year.

It said it chalked up more than 13 million visits to its website on Tuesday, including customers checking to see if they were eligible to upgrade to a new phone. It said that the number of eligibility checks was three times higher than its previous record for a single day.

"


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Apple...9uZTQ-?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=3&asset=&ccode=

You're kidding right? Or you didn't read my post. 13 million page views in a day is still only 3 times the volume my single web server blade can handle. You need to do some of your own fact checking smart guy. In the world of web serving these numbers are way down in the bottom end of the spectrum especially for a NETWORKING COMPANY.

For some perspective, google handles more then 2 billion searches a day with a ~2 second response time. Now I'm not saying AT&T needs to have the capacity of google, but even 1% of that capacity would have easily handled all of AT&T's traffic for that day with a ~2 second response time, even a 10th of 1% would still have handled that much traffic with a ~20 second response time. And google needs capacity to serve the entire planet, AT&T only needs to serve the U.S.

This is silly. AT&T is a NETWORKING company. I mean seriously! Are we really considering this reasonable?! This is simply another example in a literally unbroken chain of examples of AT&T under delivering. And people say it's unexpected, the iPhone data plans are taxing the network infrastructure, the 1 day popularity was unexpected etc. etc. I call shenanigans. I pay AT&T buckets of cash, and for this I expect my phone, their web sites, and my data plans to work at least as well as they all did 5 years ago when I was paying only 25% of my current bill.

f

 

[BobHail]

Foxconn workers need to work overtime!!

 

[rikers_mailbox]

That's awesome! The bottom line is that it's a good, solid product. I converted from Blackberry to an iPhone a little over a year ago. Never been happier with a purchase (I have the 3GS). My decision to pre-order the iPhone 4 was based solely on my solid experience with my iPhone 3GS. It has been a lasting, durable product that worked from the minute I turned it on and has never stopped. It's my contact book, my ToDo list, my calendar, my gaming device, my sketch pad, my journal, my everything! Oh, yeah, it's also a great phone that I use a lot for work. To have a single device that can do all so beautifully is a technological wonder.

Apple doesn't always do something FIRST, but what they do is take what others are doing and make it better. That fact that my 99 year-old grandmother was able to look at a picture on my iPhone and figure out quickly how to "swipe" from picture to picture says something about the intuitiveness of the device and its OS.

I don't tend to be a person of excess and I'm rarely the kind of person who will stand in line for something new, but I will do it for an iPhone!

Why don't you use your 3GS until it needs replacement?

Such durable and reliable products should be used until they wear out or cannot be repaired. That goes for everything; iPhones, cars, homes, clothing, appliances. It's just part of being thrifty and reducing your impact as a consumer. Plus is saves $$ in the long run.

I pre-ordered iPhone 4 to replace my worn and tired 1st gen iPhone 2G. the home button sticks, it runs OS 3.1.2 horribly slow, EDGE reception is terrible in LA, it's all scuffed up. I'd say I got my money's worth. I wear hand-me-down jackets. I plan to drive the car (which I own outright) into the ground. Live simply and everything else will follow.

"Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things." ~Elise Boulding

 

[tivoboy]

orders being cancelled

So, with this ridiculously LOW number (even though it is reportedly 10x the 3Gs sales - which I don't believe) I think there are going to be some unhappy people based on THINKING they have orders and actually NOT having orders.

600K is NOTHING, there's no way that that many people over a period of 20 hours, brought down an entire ecommerce system and forced the bottlenecks. All the while, people were ordering via the itunes iphone app, and getting orders (for pickup) through.

Something is missing here, it will either be numbers, or iphones.

don't say I didn't tell you so!

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/17/li...crunch+(TechCrunch)&utm_content=Google+Reader

 

[satcomer]

Do you believe that after this news some Hedge fund Apple hater predicts AAPL is doomed to $42: Hedge Fund Financial Model Predicts Apple Inc. (AAPL) to Fall 80% as Early as This Fall .

Can you believe this crap?

 

[twoodcc]

now this sounds amazing. i wonder if they will sell 1 million the first day

 

[tempusfugit]

Do you believe that after this news some Hedge fund Apple hater predicts AAPL is doomed to $42: Hedge Fund Financial Model Predicts Apple Inc. (AAPL) to Fall 80% as Early as This Fall .

Can you believe this crap?

Crazy prediction, but it fits into BAM's larger prediction of a massive market crash. So basically theyre saying everyone is screwed.

 

[Decrepit]

You're kidding right? Or you didn't read my post. 13 million page views in a day is still only 3 times the volume my single web server blade can handle. You need to do some of your own fact checking smart guy. In the world of web serving these numbers are way down in the bottom end of the spectrum especially for a NETWORKING COMPANY.

For some perspective, google handles more then 2 billion searches a day with a ~2 second response time. Now I'm not saying AT&T needs to have the capacity of google, but even 1% of that capacity would have easily handled all of AT&T's traffic for that day with a ~2 second response time, even a 10th of 1% would still have handled that much traffic with a ~20 second response time. And google needs capacity to serve the entire planet, AT&T only needs to serve the U.S.

This is silly. AT&T is a NETWORKING company. I mean seriously! Are we really considering this reasonable?! This is simply another example in a literally unbroken chain of examples of AT&T under delivering. And people say it's unexpected, the iPhone data plans are taxing the network infrastructure, the 1 day popularity was unexpected etc. etc. I call shenanigans. I pay AT&T buckets of cash, and for this I expect my phone, their web sites, and my data plans to work at least as well as they all did 5 years ago when I was paying only 25% of my current bill.

f

To be fair, those AT&T hits should have been https, which would have taken a whole hell of a lot more power than Google searches, including the need for session tracking.

That said, AT&T should have had more than enough power online for this one. They knew it was coming.

I have a put on their stock, in the hope that they lose the exclusivity and I can get an iPhone4 on a real network. I have 0 bars in my apartment. My work phone is 5 bars on Sprint. Verizon's 5 here too.

Grr.

 

[Decrepit]

Crazy prediction, but it fits into BAM's larger prediction of a massive market crash. So basically theyre saying everyone is screwed.

Last time I checked, Apple option chains for long term puts were SO expensive because many people expect a 50% decline in their stock price.